NASA Grounds Monkey Radiation Experiments

Written by PETA | December 8, 2010

UPDATE:Statement released from Brookhaven National Laboratory: “NASA has informed Brookhaven that a proposal involving primate research at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory on the Brookhaven Lab site should be removed from consideration for experimental time at the facility.”

Well, folks, you did it. After scores of protests and more than 100,000 letters, phone calls, and e-mails from PETA supporters—including some high-profile allies, such as Sir Paul McCartney, Bob Barker, Alicia Silverstone, members of Congress, and even a former NASA astronaut and engineer—the space agency has quietly called off plans to conduct cruel radiation experiments on monkeys.

Thanks in large part to your efforts, dozens of squirrel monkeys have been given an early Christmas gift and will be spared from receiving harmful doses of radiation and then being isolated in cages and subjected to years of behavioral experiments to measure the damage caused by the radiation. Such damage likely would have included brain damage, cataracts, cancerous tumors, loss of motor control, and early death.

this is a cultural thing partially. That is somewhat agressive and selfconfident people are valued more. also people get punishement or opression from some authority figure sometimes. This together rises the likelyhood that some people will just pass this thing (frequently more abusively) onto other subjects.. such as torturing experimental animals. They might use this or that to justify what kinda use they can get out of it, but such kinda people never compare this to other kind of methods wich are less abusive more efficient, or have higher gain.

PLEASE STOP EXPERIMENTING ON ANIMALS,HUMANS HAVE TO BE MORE SMART,ANIMALS HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE,THINK ABOUT WHEN GOD ASKING YOU A QUESTION WHY WE DID THAT HORRIBLE THING TO ANIMALS?ARE YOU RADY TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION?PLEASE STOP

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